Rayfield Artists - Louise Winter


	Home News Artists Links Contact	LOUISE WINTER Mezzo-soprano full biography \| reviews \| photo "Louise Winter's lovely Dido, poised and elegant, reminded me at times of Flagstad" - Andrew Porter, Opera, August 2008 Louise Winter was born in Preston, Lancashire, and studied at the Royal Northern College of Music. She made her début in 1982 with Glyndebourne Touring Opera singing Dorabella in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte and subsequently sang Tisbe La Cenerentola, Zerlina Don Giovanni, and Rosina Il barbiere di Siviglia for the company. Roles for Glyndebourne Festival Opera have included Sesto La clemenza di Tito, Varvara Katya Kabanova, Pauline Queen of Spades and Olga Eugene Onegin, which she has also sung for the Royal Opera House and Canadian Opera Company. Most recently Louise has begun working on bigger repertoire, including Brangäne Tristan und Isolde, Venus Tannhäuser and Lady Macbeth in Ernst Bloch's Macbeth for Frankfurt Opera. Louise enjoys concert work with many of the world's leading orchestras and conductors, including the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle, the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Sir Andrew Davis, the Hallé Orchestra with Mark Elder, the Philharmonia Orchestra under Sir Charles Mackerras, and has taken part in many of the BBC Proms over the last decade. Recital engagements have included appearances at the Wigmore Hall, St John's, Smith Square, the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Bath, Belfast and City of London Festivals and at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. Recent and future highlights include a return to Frankfurt singing Venus Tannhäuser, and performances of Dido Dido and Aeneas in London's Temple Festival, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with Carlo Rizzi, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde in York Minster, Mozart's Requiem at Cadogan Hall, Verdi's Requiem at the Royal Festival Hall with David Hill and the Bach Choir, Mahler Rückert Lieder with Paul McCreesh and a recital in the London Song Festival. This short biography is for information only and should not be reproduced. Please download a full biography here.